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I don't think I've seen actor Jay Harrington in anything, but he's got a wonderful face so I decided to paint his portrait utilizing every skill I've learned in Portrait Drawing art class.

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A portrait of myself when I was twenty years old and working for the military in 1989. I drew it in pencils, painted it over with watercolors and pasted a couple of CD-covers in of what I listened to back then.

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Two works from Portrait Drawing art class. The first one is a 40-minutes study which the model liked so much she purchased it from me. The other is a 50-minutes study. The arm doesn't look quite right, but the face turned out great.

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A huge double portrait of my BFF and me as we looked on my thirtieth birthday in 1998. It's pencils painted over with watercolors. And then I pasted a few CD covers and a poster on it.

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Two 40-minutes watercolor studies from Portrait Drawing art class.

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We had two sisters as models in Portrait Drawing art class and I did a 40-minutes watercolor study of each. The first one turned out fine, but in the second her hair got too high, so I tried correcting that by adding background color over it. Oh, well...

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This week in Portrait Drawing art class there was no warm-up drawing. Instead we went straight into a 40 minutes pose followed by a 60 minutes pose. I think both of my watercolor studies turned out fine, but it shows in the second that I had twenty minutes extra.

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A portrait of my mother - a strong woman like Tina Turner.

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THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME: Last year I made a song drawing for Eric Carmen's All By Myself with me on Tinder. This year I'm still single, but now trying my luck on Grindr, LOL.

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Things were back to normal at Portrait Drawing art class with a 20-minutes warm-up drawing that I decided to do in pencil and two 40-minute poses which I did in watercolor. I didn't get done with the first watercolor study because I took my time getting the tilt of the head right and then I sorta rushed through the second.

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Five 20-minute pencil drawings from the latest Portrait Drawing art class where us pupils had fun drawing each other. After the first two drawings in rough pencil, I switched to a thinner pencil.

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This week in art class, there was no model, so we pupils took turns drawing each other. So here's three 20-minute drawings of classmates I did before I posed for them for 40 minutes.

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Today it's been two years since my mother passed, so I remembered her by painting a new portrait of her using all the skill I've learned in Portrait Drawing art class since then.

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Another attempt at sexy portrait painting in watercolors. We don't get models like this in Portrait Drawing art class, so I did this at home after a photo and took all the time I needed beyond the limited time we get in class.

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Three works from Portrait Drawing art class. The first is a 20-minutes warm-up drawing in oil chalk colors and the big one is a watercolor study done in 40 minutes. The teacher liked that one. There was also a female model and the pencil drawing of her was done in 10 minutes.

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This week we had two models in Portrait Drawing art class. First is a 20-minutes warm-up drawing in oil chalk colors and then two 35-40 minutes watercolor studies. I could have used more time for both so they feel like unfinished works, but I did still get a lot of praise for the painting of the female model.

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Looking back at the A3 charcoal drawings I did of men four-five years ago and then at this brand-new A2 watercolor painting, I think I can conclude that I have really evolved as an artist since then. I pencilled the man before adding watercolor and I think it turned out really well.